George Moses Horton on the Internet

George Moses Horton merits a place of distinction among
nineteenth-century African-American poets. Enslaved from birth until the close of the Civil War, the self-taught Horton was the first American slave to protest his bondage in published verse and the first black man to publish a book in the South.

More than 200 years after his birth, there is new interest in Horton, and
lots of material to explore on the internet.

George Moses Horton's Autobiography
Horton's autobiographical sketch from The Poetical Works, his first
volume of poetry. This autobiography and the collection of poems below are
part of the
ambitious Documenting the American South
project, the work of Natalia Smith and her colleagues at the Academic
Affairs Library at UNC-Chapel Hill.

George
Moses Horton's Poems
A collection of poems from The
Poetical Works of George M. Horton, the Colored Bard of North
Carolina, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, written by
himself., Hillsborough, Heartt, 1845.